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  • 4 People Including Teacher and School Director Charged After Allegedly Running A ‘Makeshift Child Fight Club’

    4 People Including Teacher and School Director Charged After Allegedly Running A ‘Makeshift Child Fight Club’

    Four Arkansas educators were apprehended for reportedly running a “child fight club,” per PEOPLE. 

    David Boling, the Craighead County District Judge, determined there was enough evidence to charge Mary Tracy Morrison, Michael Bean, Kristin Bell, and Kathrine Lipscomb with allowing child abuse following a court hearing on April 21. Prosecuting attorney Sonia Hagood stated she filed the charges after a video from The Delta Institute emerged online.

    In the video, a teacher tells a student to attack another child “in the private area,” according to Hagood. The prosecutor described Morrison as the supposed “ringleader of this makeshift child fight club” and requested that her bail be set at $250,000 during the court proceedings.

    All four turned themselves in after discovering the arrest warrants in April, per The Jonesboro Sun. The report identified 50-year-old Morrison as the school owner, and 45-year-old Lipscomb, as a teacher. 38-year-old Bean and 36-year-old Bell are parents of students. Hagood requested Lipscomb’s bail be set at $100,000, while also expressing her outrage about the incident. 

    Craighead County jail records indicate that the judge set Lipscomb’s bail at $100,000, while Bell and Bean were held on $10,000 bail. The lawyers for all four defendants had not seen the video before the April 21 hearing. They were released shortly after being booked and will appear in court on May 22. Hagood requested that all case filings be sealed for 90 days amid her investigation.

    #Clique, what are your thoughts? 

  • Arkansas Man Allegedly Abandoned Puppies In A Box That Had His Name On It

    Arkansas Man Allegedly Abandoned Puppies In A Box That Had His Name On It

    An Arkansas man was arrested on animal cruelty charges for allegedly abandoning puppies at a local car wash, according to the NY Post. He reportedly used a box that had a shipping label with his name and information on it.

    Jeremy Roberts, 20, was apprehended by police on Tuesday after three two-month-old puppies were discovered left behind in a wash bay at Wagner Car Wash on Highway 18 in Manila, as reported by the Manila Police Department and K8 News. Authorities were able to expedite their investigation after noticing the shipping label on the box, which included Roberts’ name and address, leading them to visit his residence.

    “After talking with Roberts about the incident, he admitted to dumping the dogs,”

    Officer Ronald Amick told the outlet. Roberts faces three counts of animal cruelty, as reported by the outlet. He was taken into custody by police and subsequently transferred to the Mississippi County Sheriff’s Office. He was later released on bond, according to the report.

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Doctor’s License Suspended After He Was Accused Of Performing Sexual Acts While Staffers Watched

    Doctor’s License Suspended After He Was Accused Of Performing Sexual Acts While Staffers Watched

    A family doctor in Arkansas, Dr. David Diffine, had his medical license suspended after being accused of performing sexual acts in front of staff and prancing

    “around naked in his clinic,”

    according to various reports, per PEOPLE.

    On Oct. 16, the Arkansas State Medical Board suspended Dr. Diffine’s medical license after receiving a complaint. The board claimed he violated the Medical Practices Act and regulations.

    The Arkansas Democrat Gazette says that the doctor reportedly immersed

    “in sexual contact, sexual relations, or romantic relationship with a patient.”

    The board received a fuss about the doctor back in July, claiming he

    “engaged in sexual contact with his staff, who were also his patients and sexually harassed these same individuals,”

    per JonesboroRightNow.com.

    According to KAI, security footage showed the sexual harassment on July 17 at his clinic.

    Per an order, 

     “The video shows, among other things, Dr. Diffine performing a sexual act with a staff member while other staff members were present and watching.… The video also shows Dr. Diffine walking throughout the clinic naked.”

    An emergency suspension was put forth by the board because the doctor showcased

    “an ongoing danger to the public in his continued practice of medicine.”

    The board will hold a hearing on Dec. 6 to decide whether to revoke or suspend Diffine’s medical license in Arkansas. However, this isn’t the first time Dr. Diffine has faced trouble. Back in 2017, his license was temporarily suspended for overprescribing drugs, but the charges were later dismissed.

  • Pastor Reportedly Charged With 100 Counts Of Crimes Related To Child Sexual Abuse Material

    Pastor Reportedly Charged With 100 Counts Of Crimes Related To Child Sexual Abuse Material

    An 43-year-old pastor from Arkansas, James Vincent Henry, was apprehended on Oct. 15 after an investigation revealed child sexual abuse material on social media. He faces 100 charges related to these crimes, reports KNWA Fayetteville. 

    According to officials, Henry is the pastor at Crossroads Assembly of God Church in Delight. Authorities received tips from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, leading to a warrant for Snapchat and Kik messages.

    An arrest warrant for Henry was issued on Oct. 14. He was apprehended by Pike County police on Oct. 15, facing 100 charges related to child sexual abuse material. 

    Reports say that Henry previously served as the youth pastor at Newsong Church in Centerton, according to the Crossroads Assembly of God’s website. He and his wife fostered 76 children in a span of four years. The couple later went on to work with women from age 18 to 25 at a transitional living program. 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Woman Arrested For Allegedly Kidnapping Her Eight Children From Their Foster Home

    Woman Arrested For Allegedly Kidnapping Her Eight Children From Their Foster Home

    An Arkansas woman was apprehended in California after allegedly abducting her eight children from their foster homes, reports Radar Online.

    The suspect has been identified as 36-year-old, Trista Fullerton. The Anderson Police Department received a call from a

    “concerned citizen”

    around 12:30 a.m. on Oct. 21 who said they saw Fullerton

    “displaying bizarre behavior”

    while in the parking lot of a Mexican restaurant in a pickup truck with six children inside. It is unclear how all eight children were transported, police said.

    Upon arriving at the scene, officers discovered an Arkansas-registered truck filled with trash. Fullerton, who had a felony warrant for abducting her children, was arrested at the scene. Police interviewed her and learned that the other two missing children were located in a home about 5 miles away, Anderson Police Department confirmed, with the help of the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office. 

    Fullerton, who is the biological mother of all eight children, had her custodial rights revoked for undisclosed reasons. She is now in custody at the Shasta County Jail and will be extradited to Arkansas, police said. Shasta County’s children and family services have taken custody of all eight children, according to the outlet. 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Man Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison After Tracking 13-Year-Old Girl’s Location Through Snapchat

    Man Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison After Tracking 13-Year-Old Girl’s Location Through Snapchat

    A man from Arkansas, Michael Ray Beam, 32, was sentenced to 30 years in prison with lifetime supervision following release after he stalked a teen girl through the location feature on Snapchat, the Justice Department says according to FOX. 

    After the man tracked the 13-year-old girl’s location through Snapchat, he then went on to leave a vape in her mailbox in trade for sexual content, police say. If you’re unaware, Snapchat has a feature that allows users to see other users’ locations if the feature is turned on. The 32-year-old man used the feature to track the teen to her home. The man also utilized the social media app to

    “induce”

    the unidentified teen to send him sexual photos of herself. 

    “In Beam’s phone, investigators found multiple ‘screen capture’ video recordings of the child pornography he had received via Snapchat from the young victim.” 

    A plea agreement filed in the man’s case said that he contained a folder on his phone called

    “My Collections”

    as well as

    “a number of subfolders, some of which were designated with female first names,”

    which was later seized by prosecutors.  

    According to the court filing,

    “In one of the nine screen-capture videos, the Defendant can be seen to activate his phone’s screenside digital camera, causing his face to be briefly displayed on the phone’s screen, and thus to be recorded as part of that video.” 

    Beam was apprehended back in September 2020 by the Miller County Sheriff’s Office. Reports added that he pleaded not guilty. 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts? 

  • Wisconsin Man Arrested For Double Homicide After Finding His Girlfriend In Bed With Another Woman

    Wisconsin Man Arrested For Double Homicide After Finding His Girlfriend In Bed With Another Woman


    According to Fox 11 News, a 48-year-old man was arrested after fatally stabbing two women in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

    On January 29th, at around 11 A.M., the Green Bay Police Department responded to a call at a duplex, where the bodies two women were found. 58-year-old Rhonda Cegelski and 53-year-old Paula O’Connor were discovered after they were repeatedly stabbed to death.

    Approximately 10 hours later, Richard Wendell Sotka was arrested in connection with their deaths. Already out on bond from a stalking and violating a restraining order, Sotka removed his court-ordered GPS ankle monitor before fleeing to Arkansas. Police were still able to track his location through the OnStar system inside his truck.

    After his arrest, Sotka immediately confessed to the killings. He claimed that he walked in on his girlfriend, Cegelski, having sex with another woman, and felt “humiliated.” According to police records, Sotka claims he has no recollection of how the attack occurred, but admits that he is “guilty of killing these girls.”

    Sotka will be extradited to Wisconsin, where he faces charges of first degree intentional homicide, use of a dangerous weapon, domestic abuse, and felony bail jumping. He was scheduled to appear in a hearing last week, but courts have been closed due to severe weather.

  • Arkansas Pastor And Founder Of Halfway House Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Resident

    Arkansas Pastor And Founder Of Halfway House Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Resident

    In May of 2021, Pastor Thomas Gilman Hartman and his wife founded Wings of Peace, a Christian transitional living facility for those who were released from prison. The purpose of the halfway house was to provide help and support to the previously incarcerated as they transitioned into their new lives while remaining sober. Though he claimed to provide services and basic necessities to former drug offenders, investigators discovered Hartman was using his position of power to sexually assault one of his residents, The Arkansas Democrat reports.

    A 23-year-old, who was required to live at the location because he was on probation, told authorities that he had known Hartman for around fives years and had considered him a father figure. His feelings changed when he was forced to engage in sexual intercourse multiple times with the pastor. The victim says he obliged because Hartman had bonded him out of jail, and he was afraid that he would be turned in if he decided to leave or report his assaults.

    Hartman admitted to the sexual contact with the victim, but claims that the acts were consensual. According to The Arkansas Democrat, Hartman has a history of committing sexual abuse. In 1998, he was convicted of sexual assault in the second degree of a child and was released on parole five years later. He is currently registered as level 3 sex offender.

    On January 20th, Hartman was arrested and charged with sexual assault. While searching his home, deputies from the Benton County Sheriff’s Office discovered a rifle and he was later charged with possession of a firearm by certain persons. Despite his history, Hartman was released on a $150,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in court for his arraignment February 27th.